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These essays discuss members of the "other" New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals.

In "The Original Torah", S. David Sperling argues that, while there is no archaeological evidence to support much of the activity chronicled in the Torah, a historical reality exists there if we know how to seek it.

A study of global food security that is focused at the household level. Filled with dozens of revealing figures, charts, and tables, including a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulverability to hunger, it provides a basic introduction to issues of food security.

A selection of appreciative yet critical essays giving an historical context for the life and works of Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan's metaphysics, his interpretation of the Bible, his views on education, economic justice and the role of women are given full consideration.

Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this book chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.

How has Judaism, a religion defined by its minority status, attained equal footing with Catholicism and Protestantism in dominating modern American religious life? This work, revealing the effects of this evolution on Jews in America and on America in general, encompasses politics and culture.

Judge's book covers the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In seven chapters, the author lays out the background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in the pogrom, and analyzes its causes and effects.

Features three intellectual currents in East European Jewry - Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this title chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.